Mises Wire

American politicians claim that excessive military spending makes Americans "safe." The record shows otherwise.

Thirty-nine people were killed in school shootings in 2018 (one of the worst years). In the same period, 900 children drowned, and 1,800 were murdered via child abuse. 

Krugman’s recent NYT column on Russia features commentary on trade surpluses that is at best very misleading.

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By making covid a political virus, progressive politicians, cheered on by their media, applied political “solutions” that failed to protect the most vulnerable people.

There are two competing visions for the Right. 

The proabortion centralist line of "accept our definition of human rights, or else" is what we'd expect from the imperialists of old who claimed the "savages" in the colonies couldn't be trusted with self-government. 

Ireland has been "experimenting" with MMT and price controls. The results are predictable.

While supporters of the Biden administration fault Putin for shortages, Austrian economists know the answer lies in Washington's monetary and economic mismanagement.

While the covid-19 pandemic brought sickness and death, another pandemic raged through Washington: abuse of executive power.